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This trail covers the fundamentals of programming
in the Java programming language.

Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
teaches you the core concepts behind object-oriented programming:
objects, messages, classes, and inheritance.
This lesson ends by showing you how these concepts
translate into code.
Feel free to skip this lesson
if you are already familiar with object-oriented programming.

Language Basics
describes the traditional features of the language,
including variables, arrays, data types, operators, and control flow.

Classes and Objects
describes how to write the classes from which objects are created, and how to create and use the objects.

Interfaces and Inheritance
describes interfaces—what they are, why you
would want to write one, and how to write one. This section also describes the way in which you can
derive one class from another. That is, how
a subclass can inherit fields and methods from a superclass. You will learn that all
classes are derived from the Object class, and how to modify the methods that a
subclass inherits from superclasses.

Numbers and Strings
This lesson describes how to use
Number and String objects
The lesson also shows you how to format data for output.

Generics
are a powerful feature of the Java programming language. They improve the
type safety of your code,
making more of your bugs detectable at compile time.

Packages
are a feature of the Java programming language
that help you to organize and structure your classes
and their relationships to one another.

At Alden Hosting we eat and breathe Java! We are the industry leader in providing
affordable, quality and efficient Java web hosting in the shared hosting marketplace.
All our sites run on our Java hosing platform configured for
optimum performance using Java 1.6, Tomcat 6, MySQL 5, Apache 2.2 and web
application frameworks such as Struts, Hibernate, Cocoon, Ant, etc.

We offer only one type of Java hosting - Private Tomcat. Hosting accounts on the Private
Tomcat environment get their very own Tomcat server. You can start and re-start
your entire Tomcat server yourself.